Selling HitlerMovie
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
About Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler is a 1993 comedy, drama, tv movie movie directed by Alastair Reid.
The production information lists a runtime of 4h 16m, production credits from United Kingdom, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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